Henri

Henri is a French and Finnish masculine given name. It may refer to :

French noblemen
  • Henri I de Montmorency (1534-1614), a Marshal and Constable of France
  • Henri I, Duke of Nemours (1572–1632), the son of Jacques of Savoy and Anna d'Este
  • Henri II, Duke of Nemours (1625-1659), the seventh Duc de Nemours
  • Henri, Count of Harcourt (1601-1666), a French nobleman
  • Henri, Dauphin of Viennois (1296–1349), a bishop of Metz
  • Henri de Gondi (disambiguation)
  • Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon (1555-1623), a member of the powerful House of La Tour d'Auvergne
  • Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (born 1955), the head of state of Luxembourg
  • Henri, Prince of Condé (1552–1588), a French Prince du Sang and Huguenot general
  • Henri, Prince of Condé (1588–1646), a member of the reigning House of Bourbon
  • Prince Henri, Count of Paris (1908-1999), a claimant to the throne of France from 1940 until his death
  • Prince Henri, Count of Paris, Duke of France (born 1933), a claimant to the French throne
other people
  • Henri Aalto (born 1989), a Finnish footballer
  • Henri Anspach (1882-1979), a Belgian Olympic champion épée and foil fencer
  • Henri Becquerel, (1852–1908), a French physicist who discovered radioactivity
  • Henri Bergson (1859-1941), a French philosopher
  • Henri Beunke (1851–1925), a Dutch writer
  • Henri Cappetta, a French ichthyologist
  • Henri Cartan (1904-2008), a French mathematician
  • Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004), a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism
  • Henri Casadesus (1879-1947), a French violist and music publisher
  • Henri Cassini (1781-1832), a French botanist and naturalist
  • Henri Cohen (water polo) (-1930), a Belgian water polo Olympic silver medalist
  • Henri Dufaux (1879-1980), a Swiss painter
  • Henri Estienne (16th-century), a Parisian printer and classical scholar
  • Henri Farman (1874-1958), a French aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer
  • Henri Häkkinen (born 1980), a Finnish sport shooter
  • Henri Krasucki (1924-2003), a French trade-unionist
  • Henri Leconte (born 1963), a French professional tennis player
  • Henri Legay (1920-1992), a French operatic tenor
  • Henri Lehmann (1814-1882), a German-born French historical painter and portraitist
  • Henri Matisse (1869-1954), a French artist
  • Henri Menier (1853-1913), a French businessman and adventurer
  • Henri Pélissier (1889-1935), a French racing cyclist
  • Henri Pescarolo (born 1942), a French racing driver
  • Henri Poincaré (1854-1912), a French mathematician, theoretical physicist and philosopher of science
  • Henri Richard (born 1936), a Canadian professional ice hockey player
  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), a French painter, printmaker, draftsman and illustrator
  • Henri Toivonen (1956-1986), a Finnish rally driver
  • Henri Toivomäki (born 1991), a Finnish footballer
  • Henri Lansbury (born 1990), an English footballer
  • Henri, a character from the film An American Tail
  • Robert Henri (1865-1929), an American painter
  • Victor Henri (1872-1940), a French chemist
  • Hurricane Henri (disambiguation)

Famous quotes containing the word henri:

    “The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse—as a luxury befitting a young man.”
    —Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

    “It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.”
    —Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

    “I used to think of death ... like I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.”
    —Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)